"The study showed cannabis users are judged much more harshly even though the consensus agrees marijuana is less dangerous and addictive," Karina Tissnes, a spokesperson, emailed Rooster.

Other polls have found similar things. Americans are coming around to the same truth 15-year-old experimenting behind schools tend to find: you get into more trouble with alcohol than with weed, but the cool kids are still more likely to be chuggers than tokers.

In the same survey, Americans guesstimated that pot is 25 percent safer than booze, and both drinkers and smokers said they thought marijuana was less addictive. Alcohol raised more concerns for survey takers than cannabis for: bad public behavior, skin appearance, ability to give sexual consent, disease and even facial appearance.

So they respect cannabis more, think it's overall a better, safer substance that'll mess you up less, and yet they don't respect the actual people that use cannabis? How long until the public perception of the substance changes the perception of the users? How long until weed is more accepted by more folks? When will weed come in from the cold?